Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - Couverture souple

Gleick, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679747044 ISBN 13 : 9780679747048

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Synopsis

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction.

Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman‘s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography—which was nominated for a National Book Award—of outstanding lucidity and compassion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

JAMES GLEICK is our leading chronicler of science and technology, the best-selling author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Isaac Newton, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His books have been translated into thirty languages.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679747044
• ISBN 13: 9780679747048
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible